41 minutes ago, Mitch64 said:

Didnt Rauch want the actor from OLTL, but they were not paying ABC salaries so he said no...so Brown was cast and they had to rush on it. Too bad..as I said, I would have been cheering Blake on to "jump the hell on that!"

Yes. Jim de Paiva.

Philip was a strange choice for that part anyway. I know he played wicked on Knots but that was shorter, and an awful story.

JDP has talked about turning down Ben on GL, yes.

I thought Jane was involved in some of the production elements at The City as well for a bit. I can't remember which period she said it was (after returning to GH in the 2000s) that she was near broke or out of work and Dee Hall gave her a hand for some lean years.

33 minutes ago, Vee said:

Dee Hall gave her a hand for some lean years

Gal pals stick together!

What is it with actors and finances? Jane would have been making good money over the years and being in that profession should have made arrangements for the inevitable lean years. Oh well I suppose she's no different than 90% of the population who have no clue about handling their money.

2 hours ago, Vee said:

Dee Hall gave her a hand for some lean years.

Haha...I just thought of Datalounge here!

14 hours ago, Vee said:

JDP has talked about turning down Ben on GL, yes.

I thought Jane was involved in some of the production elements at The City as well for a bit. I can't remember which period she said it was (after returning to GH in the 2000s) that she was near broke or out of work and Dee Hall gave her a hand for some lean years.

I remember Jane on SoapTalk talking about how she was at a dealership with her son and was trying to buy a car while at the same time GH called her to come back in 2003. And then she went to her son to get out of a particular car, and I suppose she bought a newer/more expensive model.

9 minutes ago, Forever8 said:

I remember Jane on SoapTalk talking about how she was at a dealership with her son and was trying to buy a car while at the same time GH called her to come back in 2003. And then she went to her son to get out of a particular car, and I suppose she bought a newer/more expensive model.

Yeah, I think she told part of that same story in which she gave the Deidre anecdote in a few print interviews then or about a decade later.

13 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

What is it with actors and finances? Jane would have been making good money over the years and being in that profession should have made arrangements for the inevitable lean years. Oh well I suppose she's no different than 90% of the population who have no clue about handling their money.

I don't think we know remotely enough about Jane or her life to cast those kind of aspersions. The fact is a lot of actors get lowballed, particularly women and particularly women as the sole breadwinner, which I believe she was, caring for a child.

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4 hours ago, Vee said:

I don't think we know remotely enough about Jane or her life to cast those kind of aspersions. The fact is a lot of actors get lowballed, particularly women and particularly women as the sole breadwinner, which I believe she was, caring for a child.

IA. As we all know, you don't go into the entertainment industry for the money OR for the job security; and as much as we begrudge many film and (primetime) TV actors for making millions per picture or per episode/season, the truth is, it's really a form of financial security in an extremely volatile profession. (Besides, by the time those same actors give their agents, managers, lawyers, etc., their cuts, they're lucky to walk away with a fraction of that big payday).

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19 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Philip was a strange choice for that part anyway. I know he played wicked on Knots but that was shorter, and an awful story.

It WAS an awful story - and from what I understand, too, it didn't play at all like it was intended.

Meanwhile, I stand by my old AMC fanfic idea of bringing in Philip Brown as the "legendary" Bobby (now Rob) Martin, now a ski instructor from Colorado.

2 hours ago, Khan said:

It WAS an awful story - and from what I understand, too, it didn't play at all like it was intended.

Meanwhile, I stand by my old AMC fanfic idea of bringing in Philip Brown as the "legendary" Bobby (now Rob) Martin, now a ski instructor from Colorado.

That would have been a great idea (and Erica could have conquered another Martin).